Profile / CV

Education, positions, teaching, grants, awards, and professional activities.

Family name
Ptaszynski
Given names
Michał Edmund
Current role
Professor · Department of Computer Science, Kitami Institute of Technology
Location
Kitami, Hokkaido, Japan
Portrait of Michal Ptaszynski

Research Interests

Education

2007 – 2010
Ph.D. (Obtained in September 24, 2010) Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Sapporo, Japan (Government scholarship).
2007 – 2007
Postgraduate research student Otaru University of Commerce, Department of Information and Management Science, Japan (Government scholarship).
2001 – 2006
M.A. Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU) in Poznan, Department of Neophilology, Faculty of Japanese studies, Poznan, Poland (graduated with a Master's degree in October 2006).
2000 – 2001
Wroclaw University of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical and Power Engineering.
1996 – 2000
Secondary School number 12 in Wroclaw, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics.

Academic Positions

2025 – present
Professor
Kitami Institute of Technology, Kitami, Japan.
2018 – 2025
Associate Professor
Kitami Institute of Technology, Kitami, Japan.
2013 – 2018
Assistant Professor
Kitami Institute of Technology, Kitami, Japan.
2012 – 2013
Postdoctoral Researcher
Kitami Institute of Technology, Kitami, Japan.
2010 – 2012
JSPS Research Fellow
Hokkai-Gakuen University, Institute of Engineering, Sapporo, Japan.
2010 – 2010
Professional Researcher
Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Japan.
2008 – 2010
Research Assistant
Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Japan, within The Global Centers of Excellence Program founded by Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
2008 – 2010
Teaching Assistant
Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Japan (courses: 1. Microprocessors; 2. Natural Language Processing Systems).

Teaching Experience & Courses

2024 – present
Robot Informatics (Undergrad year 3)
Introductory lecture in all things related to robots and their programming.
2023 – present
Advanced Lectures on Data Science I (PhD year 1)
Methods of effective field review and writing of thorough field surveys
2023 – present
Advanced Lectures on Data Science II (PhD year 1)
Application of data science techniques in each PhD student's research area
2023 – present
Special Lecture on Advanced Information and Communication Engineering I (MSc year 1)
Practical competitive course in programming of a LEGO robot for line tracing.
2020 – 2024
Affective Computing (PhD year 1)
Course presenting the Affective Computing research field. Introduction of emotion theories,
applications of emotion theories in Computer Science, most important studies
2020 – 2024
Natural Language Processing (PhD year 1)
Course presenting the basics of statistical Natural Language Processing
2021 – present
Advanced Data Science III (MSc year 1)
Course introducing all necessary elements of Data Science, such as data analysis,
data modelling and data engineering
2020 – present
Advanced Data Science II (MSc year 1)
Course introducing some of the subfields of Data Science, such as Affective Computing and
Natural Language Processing, including the newest research in the areas
2019 – 2020
Advanced Engineering of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining I (MSc year 1)
Practical course introducing basic concepts of knowledge discovery and data mining,
including data science knowledge
2018 – present
Information Design and Communication Engineering I (Undergrad year 3)
Practical course in team-based programming projects, including such topics, as
LINE chatbot creation, and programming of a Pepper Robot, etc.
2017 – present
Communication Literacy II (Undergrad year 1)
Course in effective communication, presentation and negotiation techniques
2017 – 2020
Human and Intelligence (MSc year 1)
Lectures on human intelligence, including introductory knowledge on emotions, emotion theories and Affective Computing
2016 – present
Introduction to Computer Programing II and III (Undergrad year 2)
Introductory course in Python language, classes include pure software coding (II) and
programming of a LEGO robot (III)
2016 – 2018
Intelligent Design Course Experiments II / Information Media Experiments II (Undergrad year 3)
Experiments in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning
2013 – 2018
Programing Language (Undergrad year 2)
Introductory course in C language

Grants & Scholarships

2023 – 2024
Research Expenses Funded Partially by FY2023 President's Discretionary Expenses, Research project on "Development of a robot for the support of Ainu language conversation education"
2020 – 2024
Research Expenses Funded Partially by the Research Project on "Development of communication support system for nursing based on natural language processing and machine learning technologies". KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) funded by the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (Project number: 20K11093).
2018 – 2020
Research Expenses Funded Partially by FY2018 Exploratory cross-disciplinary research development project on "Construction and optimization of infrastructure environment for information triage"
2018 – 2019
Research Expenses Funded Partially by FY2018 President's discretionary expenses Research support project on "Data collection and technology development for building Ainu language grammar model"
2018 – 2019
Research Expenses Funded Partially by FY2018 Exploratory cross-disciplinary research development project on "Environmentally symbiotic road profiling system in the industrial-agricultural research area"
2017 – 2020
Research Expenses Funded Partially by the Research Project on "Development of a versatile future trend prediction support system using morphosemantic patterns information of text data". KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) funded by the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (Project number: 17K00324).
2016 – 2017
Research Expenses Funded Partially by FY2016 Education and Research Activation Expenses (President's Discretionary Expenses) Research Support (B) project on "Development of deep learning and data mining experiment support environment for big data"
2015 – 2018
Research Expenses Funded Partially by the Research Project on "FeelHelper: Development of technology for cyberbullying mitigation focusing on both perpetrator and victim". KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) funded by the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (Project number: 15K16044).
2014 – 2015
Research Expenses Funded Partially by Special measures framework to further enhance [exhibition of leadership by the University President], FY2014 internationalization promotion expenses project on "Promotion of internationalization of faculty and students through educational collaboration with overseas based on international joint committee research FY2014, "Invitation of overseas travel expenses for inviting researchers", Series of invited lectures by professor Jacek Pyzalski on "Cyberbullying as a social phenomenon - What have we learned from 10 years of research?"
2013 – 2015
Research Expenses Funded Partially by the Research Project on "SimpaTALK: Development and application of a language model taking into account user emotions and flexibly adapting to situation". KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up funded by the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (Project number: 25880003).
2013 – 2014
Research Expenses Funded Partially by FY2013 Educational Research Revitalization Expenses (President's Discretionary Expenses) Research Support (B) project on "Development and application of language models that take into account the emotions of the speaker and flexibly adapt to the situation"
2012 – 2015
Research Expenses Funded Partially by the Research Project on "Development of a method to detect cyber-bullying entries based on reputation, emotion and ethics". KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) funded by the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (Project number: 24600001).
2010 – 2012
Secondary Investiator in project "Empathic Computer: Developing a Dialogue Agent that Understands and Aptly Responds to User Emotions". KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellows funded by the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (Project number: 22-00358).
2010 – 2012
Research Fellowship Founded by the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS), affiliated at Hokkai-Gakuen University, Graduate School of Engineering, Japan.
2010
Research Expenses Founded Partially by the Research Project on "Development of A Dynamic Internet-based Wordbook System to Follow Information Transformation", Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) funded by the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (Project Number: 20500833).
2010
Research Expenses Founded Partially by a Grant from Global COE Program of Center for Next-Generation Information Technology Based on Knowledge Discovery and Knowledge Federation (Project name: "Development of Automatic Common Knowledge Acquisition Method for the Area of Nano-Electoronics")
2010
Research Expenses Grant from The Young Researcher Support Program, within The Global Centers of Excellence Program founded by Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
2008 – 2010
Travel Grants from The Global Centers of Excellence Program (Hokkaido University Branch) to attend International Conferences, founded by Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
2008 – 2010
Travel Grants from Center for Engineering Education Development (Hokkaido University Branch) to attend International Conferences
2008 – 2010
Travel Grants from Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Japan
2008
Travel Grant from The International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'08) Workshop on Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence (HAI'08)
2007 – 2009
Research Expenses Founded Partially by a Cognitive Science Research Grant from the Nissan Science Foundation (Project name: "Communication Ability Development Toy with Common Sense Dialogue System")
2007 – 2010
Ph.D. Scholarship of Government of Japan, Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Japan
2007
Scholarship of Government of Japan, Postgraduate research student, Otaru University of Commerce, Department of Information and Management Science, Japan
2005
Scholarship award for exceptional academic grades, Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU), Poznan, Poland
2004 – 2005
Scholarship of Government of Japan, Course for Japanese Language and Culture, Hokkaidà University, Japan

Honours & Awards

2020
山下記念研究賞 IPSJ Yamashita SIG Research Award for Paper: "A proposal for a unified corpus of the Ainu language", 惠報処理学会 第237回自然言語処理研究会, 北見, 25-26.09.2018.
2019
BICA 2019 BEST INNOVATIVE WORK for Paper: "Emotional and Moral Impressions Associated with Buddhist Religious Terms in Japanese Blogs-Preliminary Analysis", Proceedings of Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures 2019 (BICA 2019), pp 387-392, Aug 16 – 19, 2019, Redmond, Washington
2019
BICA 2019 OUTSTANDING RESEARCH AWARD for Paper: "Emotional and Moral Impressions Associated with Buddhist Religious Terms in Japanese Blogs-Preliminary Analysis", Proceedings of Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures 2019 (BICA 2019), pp 387-392, Aug 16 – 19, 2019, Redmond, Washington
2019
Encouragement Award for Paper: 地域観堉支援に向けた対話案冠システムの構築と評価 ["Construction and evaluation of an interactive guidance system for regional tourism support"], 16th National Conference of the Society of Tourism Information, June 29th (Sat) - June 30th (Sun), 2019, Yonago
2018
優秀研究賞 OUTSTANDING RESEARCH AWARD for Paper: "A proposal for a unified corpus of the Ainu language", 惠報処理学会 第237回自然言語処理研究会, 北見, 25-26.09.2018.
2014
BEST PRESENTATION AWARD / FANプレゼンテーション賞受賞 for Paper: V-Murasaki:比喩的素描によりベトナム語の語義を獲得するシステム("V-Murasaki: A System to Acquire Vietnamese Word Sense Descriptions Based on Figurative Descriptions") [in Japanese] 第24回インテリジェント・システム・シンポジウム(FAN2014)講演論文éݠ(2014.09) 北見, The Proceedings of The 24th Fuzzy, Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks and Computational Intelligence (FAN 2014), Kitami, Japan, 18-19.09.2014.
2014
BEST PAPER AWARD 大会優秀賞受賞 for Paper: 宿泊施設の観点に着目した施設活性度の定量化と分析 ("Quantification and Analysis of Facility Activity with Focus on Accommodation Facilities") [in Japanese], 第11回観堉惠報学会堨国大会, The Eleventh Annual Meeting of The Society for Tourism Informatics, Tokyo, Japan, June 20-21, 2014, pp. 14-15.
2011
IEEE SAPPORO SECTION ENCOURAGEMENT AWARD, for Paper: "CAO: A Fully Automatic Emoticon Analysis System Based on Theory of Kinesics", In IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 46-59, Jan.-June 2010
2008
Best Student Paper Award at the Second International Conference on Kansei Engineering & Affective Systems (KEAS'08), Nagaoka, Japan, November 2008
2007
Nomura Research Institute "NRI Short Paper Contest 2007", Honorable mention
2002
First Place in XXIV edition of The Japanese Language Competition, organized by Embassy of Japan in Poland, name of the presentation: Pōrandogo ni okeru nihongo ni niteiru kotoba (Phonetically similar words in Polish and Japanese).
1997 – 2000
Honorable Mentions at The Japanese Language Competition, organized by Embassy of Japan in Poland, editions: XIX, XX, XXI, XXII.

Courses & Certificates

2023
IEEE Ethics Champion.
2009
J.TEST Certificate, Test of Practical Japanese, Jitsuyō Nihongo Kentei, Level: Pre-A, administered by Association for Testing Japanese Proficiency.
2006
JLPT Certificate, Japanese Language Proficiency Test, Nihongo Nōryoku Ninteisho, Level: 1-kyū, administered jointly by the Japan Foundation and the Japan Educational Exchanges and Services Bureau.
2004 – 2005
Course for Japanese Language and Culture (Nihongo-Nihonbunka Kenshū Kōsu) - a year-long course of Japanese language in Japan, held at Hokkaidō University, Japan.
Year-long course of Japanese tea ceremony (according to the rules of the chadō-urasenke school), held at the Hokkaidō University.
1995
Course of Accelerated Learning and Extending of Spatial Imagination.

Memberships & Affiliations

Professional Activities

Program committees, editorial boards, workshop organisation, reviewing — grouped by year (most recent first).

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2023

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2012

2011

2010

2009

2007

Elsewhere

Computational Linguistics Group on LinkedIn — I founded a group on LinkedIn dedicated to Computational Linguistics and related fields (NLP, Corpus Linguistics, etc.) to help people interested in the topic share and obtain information about language processing.

Japonica Creativa — a student scientific circle at the Institute of Japanese Studies, Department of Oriental Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań. I was one of the founders and served as president for several years; the circle disseminates Japanese culture and provides Japan-related information in the Poznań area.

Hokkaido — Japan without geishas and samurais — a 2005 multi-author book on phenomena related to Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan. My chapter is about the night life and dark side of Sapporo, Hokkaido's largest city. (hokkaido.com.pl)

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